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J. WARRINGTON.

BOLTING REEL;

No. 310,483. I Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE \VARRINGTON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE NORDYKE & MARMON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOLTING-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,483, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed March 3, 188-1. (X0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J Essn WARRING-TON, of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belting-Reels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said invention is to provide a means for returning the coarse or unbolted material to the end of the reel, into which it is introduced through the reel itself, thus dispensing with the usual separate mechanism.

It consists in the combination,with the reel, of a central hollow shaft having conveyerflights or a conveyor therein, and a head having 1ifting-wings in the end of the reel, arranged, to discharge into said hollow shaft, whereby the usual conveyer outside the reelchest and the features of construction which its use renders necessary are dispensed with, as will be hereinafter more specifically set forth.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section on the dotted line of a reel embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional View looking to the right from the dotted line 3 3 Fig. 3, a similar viewlooking to the right from the dotted line a: 00, and Fig. 4 a detail View looking downwardly from the dotted line 10 w.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the casing of the reel; 13, the reel proper; O, the hollow shaft; D, the lifting-head; E, the receiving-spout, and F the frame on which the other portions are mounted. The casing A surrounds the reel and receives the fine material as it comes from said reel, and discharges it at the lower end into whatever is provided to receive it (usually a spout) in the ordinary manner. The reel B is secured to the casing A and to the shaft 0, and operates as it revolves to bolt the ground materialin the usual manner of reels of this character. It is mounted on the shaft 0 and on a bearing formed by the inner end of the spout E, having an extension or hearing portion, a, for that purpose. The hollow shaft 0 rests in abearing, c, in the end of the spout E at one end, and extends into a solid portion, 0, which rests in a hear ing, f, on the frame F, at the other. Itisprovided with external conveyer-fiights, c, for that portion of its length which extends inside the spout E, and with internal conveyerflights, 0 or an independent conveyer extending the whole length of the hollow portion. It also has holes 0 alongside the wings of thelifting-head, through which the material enters the shaft. The lifting-head D is of apeculiar form, being preferably bulged in the center, and extending inside the hollow shaft, where it terminates at the point the conveyer-fiights begin, and is usually a portion of the solid part 0 of the shaft, as shown. This head is provided with arms or wings d, which extend from the sides of the reel to the hollow shaft. (See Fig. 3.) They are flush with holes a in said shaft, and are thus adapted to guide the material which may be raised by said arms to and through said holes into said shaft. They are curved, as shown, in order that the course of the material in falling may correspond to the motion of the reel. For a portion of their length they are preferably double or in the form of a spout, as shown, and are thus adapted to convey the material with more certainty into the openings 0. \Vings of other forms might be used on this head, or the wings might be to a considerable extent, if not altogether, dispensed witlnwithout destroying the operativeness of this invention; but it is most effective when constructed substantially as shown. The spout E surrounds a portion of the shaft O,which projects outside the reel, as shown. It forms a bearing, 0 whereby said reel is supported at one end, and also contains a bearing, 6', for one end of the shaft, as before described. It has an opening or hopper, E, in its top side, through which the material is introduced. The frame F is any appropriate frame-work for supporting the mechanism, and needs no special description.

The operation of my said invention is as follows: The material is first introduced into the spout E through the hopper E as it leavesthe grinding-mill, and by means of the flights c on the shaft 0 is conveyed into the reel,where it is subjected to the usual bolting process.

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The fine material which passes through the reel is delivered at the l'OWQlLOllCl of the reel, and by means of the wings ais prcferablylifted to the center into the receptacle A and carried off through the spout a,leading therefrom. The coarser material works along the reel onto the lifting'arms cl on the head 1), which raise it up, and, by reason of their peculiar formation, drop it through the holes cinside thehollow shaft 0, which, by means of the flights 0*, (or the equivalent couveyer, works it back to ward the other end, and finally discharges it at c", as will be readily understood, from whence it is taken to a mill and subjected to a further grinding process. The process of handling the material is thus confined to, a single maehine-the reel-instead of employing a sepa rate conveyer, as is usual.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the reel 13, a hollow shaft having internal conveyor-flights and orifices 0, and wings (Z in the lower end of the reel, whereby the unbolted material israised and discharged through said holes into said shaft and carried back to the end of the reel hollow shaft 0, head D, which operates to transfer the material from said reel to said hollow shaft, and tube E, said several parts being arranged and operating substantially as set forth.

8. The combination of a reel, a head, D, whereby the material is transferred from said reel to the hollow shaft, said hollow shaft, and a spout, said shaft having external conveyerflights where it enters said spout, and internal conveyer-flight leading" from said head to the other end, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 25th day of February, A. D. 1884.

JESSE \VARRINGTON. 

